Re: Laptop for personal use?

[Phil Snow Leopard <philstokes03 -at- googlemail -dot- com>]

To be fair, with the exception of the FCP issue, most of those sound like resolvable issues to do with the way your daughter's Mac is configured and connected to the network. I'll send you a message off-list with some suggestions about how you might go about tackling them.

Best

Phil
Tech Writer:
http://applehelpwriter.com

On 31 Jan 2012, at 22:56, William Sherman wrote:

> I have to agree wholeheartedly.
> 
> We bought Final Cut for my daughter who is in video and TV production in school. First thing we learned was the latest Final Cut was garbage, so much that even Conan made fun of it on his show.  Look for the YouTube on it.
> 
> So we had to get the older version.
> 
> I think she did an upgrade or update on the OS, because until last summer, the Macs sort of worked on the network here. At least I could see the drop boxes from a PC and they typically could see the PC computers and the shared backup drive G.
> 
> Since summer, her iMac shows but has no public folder showing. Can't transfer anything to her across the network. She also cannot see any of the PCs on the network, so she can't transfer files to the backup drive or to anyone else for review.
> 
> The MacBook Pro still shows its public folder and drop box.  It can't see any PC.
> 
> Also, the Office 2008 for Mac was working fine but about two months ago, it began letting Word docs change to yellow font for anyone receiving them on a PC.  The are black on the Macs but yellow on a PC.
> 
> Small docs aren't a big hassle to email back and forth if needed, but transferring video files of 30 to 60 Mb is.







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